SEND Teaching Assistant - Inclusion Room Lead; Dynamo Room

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a dedicated and compassionate professional to join our SEND Team to:

• Support pupils with a range of additional needs including Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), sensory processing needs, SEMH and communication difficulties
• Play a key role in supporting pupils to regulate, engage and access learning, through structured sensory learning and personalised support strategies

• Has experience working with children with SEND
• Is patient, calm, adaptive and reflective
• Can provide 1:1 and small-group support, including emotional and sensory regulation strategies and routines
• Can contribute to planning and implementing Individual Education Plans or EHCP targets
• Has some knowledge of sensory regulation strategies and behaviour support techniques
• Has excellent communication and teamwork skills

We can offer you:

• A supportive and inclusive school community
• Ongoing SEND training and professional development
• A well-resourced sensory room environment
• Opportunities to develop specialist SEND skills
• A supportive, experienced and active SEND Team

The role will involve:

• Supporting pupils with sensory, communication and emotional regulation needs helping them to thrive in a calm, structured environment
• Working closely with the SEND Team, specialist teachers and external agencies
• Working as part of a skilled, motivated and proactive SEND Team
• Further developing a calm, structured and nurturing learning environment to meet the needs of pupils with SEND
• Contributing to the learning journals for pupils with SEND
• Building strong partnerships with pupils, parents and carers
• Intimate care

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical online and social media prohibition from teaching, right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children. You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.